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 Author: George_Lucy View Messages Posted By George_Lucy
 Posted: Mar 22, 2024 10:32
 Subject: Idea for messages Can we fix it?
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George_Lucy (17398)

Location:  USA, New Jersey
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Jan 16, 2008 Contact Member Seller
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Store: George's Brick Shop
Why can we not have all our messages go into our inbox on Bricklink? When someone
messages a seller who doesn’t have an order we get an email from BL with the
message. The message reply email isn’t even to the person asking the question.
You have to remove the BL email and put in their email or it will just go
to a dead box. It seems so simple to keep track of if we just keep all messages
on BL. It would even be better if we didn’t give out email addresses like most
other sites already block. They may also stop the spam we are all getting. Just
my 2 cents.
 Author: rainbowmist View Messages Posted By rainbowmist
 Posted: Mar 22, 2024 10:56
 Subject: Re: Idea for messages Can we fix it?
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rainbowmist (1167)

Location:  USA, Michigan
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Oct 31, 2009 Contact Member Seller
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Store: RainbowMists Bricks
In General, George_Lucy writes:
  Why can we not have all our messages go into our inbox on Bricklink? When someone
messages a seller who doesn’t have an order we get an email from BL with the
message. The message reply email isn’t even to the person asking the question.
You have to remove the BL email and put in their email or it will just go
to a dead box. It seems so simple to keep track of if we just keep all messages
on BL. It would even be better if we didn’t give out email addresses like most
other sites already block. They may also stop the spam we are all getting. Just
my 2 cents.

+1
 Author: crazylegoman View Messages Posted By crazylegoman
 Posted: Mar 22, 2024 11:49
 Subject: Re: Idea for messages Can we fix it?
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crazylegoman (1089)

Location:  USA, Indiana
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Apr 1, 2001 Contact Member Seller
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Store: Hoosier Daddy
In General, George_Lucy writes:
  When someone
messages a seller who doesn’t have an order we get an email from BL with the
message. The message reply email isn’t even to the person asking the question.
You have to remove the BL email and put in their email or it will just go
to a dead box.

Years ago when you would reply to a Bricklink email from a member, it would already
have the member's email address set up as the one for replies. I have no
idea why they changed it. It's like it's fun for them to break working
features and then just leave them broken.

David
 Author: infinibrix View Messages Posted By infinibrix
 Posted: Mar 22, 2024 11:54
 Subject: Re: Idea for messages Can we fix it?
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infinibrix (4981)

Location:  United Kingdom, England
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Jul 1, 2013 Contact Member Seller
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Store: infinibrix
In General, George_Lucy writes:
  Why can we not have all our messages go into our inbox on Bricklink? When someone
messages a seller who doesn’t have an order we get an email from BL with the
message. The message reply email isn’t even to the person asking the question.
You have to remove the BL email and put in their email or it will just go
to a dead box.

I agree this really ought to be up there as one of Bricklink's priority fixes
as I wonder how many sellers have replied not realizing their reply had gone
to the BL email leaving the buyer thinking they had been ignored. I wonder how
many lost sales opportunities and what overall negative impact this may have
caused to the way buyers perceive Bricklink and its sellers!